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Function

noun

1.

(mathematics) a mathematical relation such that each element of a given set (the domain of the function) is associated with an element of another set (the range of the function). Synonyms: map, mapping, mathematical function, single-valued function.

2.

What something is used for. Synonyms: purpose, role, use. "Ballet is beautiful but what use is it?"

3.

The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group. Synonyms: office, part, role. "The government must do its part" , "Play its role"

4.

A relation such that one thing is dependent on another. "Price is a function of supply and demand"

5.

A formal or official social gathering or ceremony.

6.

A vaguely specified social event. Synonyms: affair, occasion, social function, social occasion. "An occasion arranged to honor the president" , "A seemingly endless round of social functions"

7.

A set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program. Synonyms: procedure, routine, subprogram, subroutine.

verb

1.

Perform as expected when applied. Synonyms: go, operate, run, work. "Does this old car still run well?" , "This old radio doesn't work anymore"

2.

Serve a purpose, role, or function. Synonym: serve. "The female students served as a control group" , "This table would serve very well" , "His freedom served him well" , "The table functions as a desk"

3.

Perform duties attached to a particular office or place or function. Synonym: officiate.

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"Function" Quotes from Famous Books

... imagination, we not only inadvertently foster vice and enervation, but we throw away one of the most precious implements for ministering to life's highest needs. There is no doubt that this ill adjusted function consumes quite unnecessarily vast stores of vital energy, even when we contemplate it in its immature manifestations which are infinitely more wholesome than the dumb swamping process. Every high school boy and girl knows the difference between the concentration and the ...

— The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets • Jane Addams

... wage-earners to be self-supporting as quickly as possible. It was decided to help the industrial workers rather than the commercial and professional, as the last two are already to some extent provided for in education. The function of the school was, therefore, that of the Short-Time Trade School, which would provide the girl who must go to work the moment she can obtain her working papers (about fourteen years of age) with an enlightened apprenticeship in some ...

— The Making of a Trade School • Mary Schenck Woolman

... evening she went with the Montgomerys to the Army and Navy reception at the White House. Lady Mary had but to express a wish for a card to any function in Washington; and her popularity had much to do with her love ...

— Senator North • Gertrude Atherton

... speaking, three classes of interpreters in Music: performers or executants, composers, and teachers. The function of each of these is, by a special sensitiveness, to apprehend the message of spirit, and then, by their own technique and in their own particular way, to pass it on for the benefit of others. In the body the nervous system, which is the link between spirit and matter, serves ...

— Spirit and Music • H. Ernest Hunt

... a different title, but gives the lands as held by the former possessor. The monarch assumed the function of the fole-gemot, but the principle remained—the feudee only became tenant for life. Each estate reverted to the Crown on the death of him who held it; but, previous to acquiring possession, the new tenant had to cease to be his own "man," and became the "man" of his superior. ...

— Landholding In England • Joseph Fisher

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